The difference between you and I is no difference at all

The difference between you and I is no difference at all, it is only a stage of knowing, of acceptance, of consciousness.  This is my opportunity to love you all completely, to expand my luminous aura and welcome you into my truth. 

Will you join me?  Will you feel yourself drawn, drifting on warm waves of light into my heart?  There is a new world that awaits you here, a world of simple love, of caring one for the other, of relinquishing resistance, a world of knowing love from hate and living a life of peace and right livelihood. 

Open ye your hearts, and feel on levels sub-atomic, levels of pure light the emancipation, the resurrection, the seed that grows into the tree of new life.  It is you.  It is nothing you must ponder nor think about, nothing you must endure or suffer through.  It is truth. 

You are living examples of life.  You are the note in the symphony the Master created, is still composing and will always compose.  Rise with me to levels where you can hear unencumbered, unbothered by distraction.  Forgive thyself, that you might rise above all illusory life; forgive others, that you may be free of the trappings of karma.  Rest here with me.  We have much to discuss. 

Jesus

Sit with me. These are days to breathe. Listen

Sit with me. These are days to breathe. Listen.  Life is growing all around you.  You are growing.  You know, you have experienced and utilized the substance that appears invisible.  Do not fill such magnificence with less than love. 

Stay your course.  Know that you are God; we know you are.  Share your gifts with family and friends.  Remember that you are the river, you are the flow.  You are in God’s embrace, in our company, in the embrace of the Masters.  You shall not suffer.

We love you deeply,
Rumi

Remember something, my children, my beloveds

Remember something, my children, my beloveds, that in this time, your times of instant everythings there are waves that would wash you under, and the only way to avoid drowning is to raise yourself and stay raised above them.

 

Do not meet the bull head on.  It is foolhardy and it is the biggest mistake you could make.  A world within a world, a circle within a circle; insulate yourself.  It does not mean divorcing oneself from life.  It means loving and honoring and respecting one’s sovereignty of recognizing God deep within, above all else.  And it means having such a place to have fun, to know joy; not toil and suffering but simple joy.

 

There are so many things that you can do to bring your love and light into the world.  Try some, you might like it.

Be happy,
Shams

Goals are wonderful, but attaining a goal without experiencing the richness of the moment is a hollow victory

Goals are wonderful, but attaining a goal without experiencing the richness of the moment is a hollow victory.  Once again, the rising sun within your breast is where you might sit to know the majesty that makes a lifetime. 

When you sit within and become a part of the sun that rises with every feeling of love, your perspective will expand, your need to judge will dissipate.  Though not meant as a world of struggle, being human on earth has turned into just such a thing.  It is for the brave of the God heart to bring and to anchor a light of love.

Make no mistake, you do this all of the time and in every place you visit.  That is why worry, self-doubt, flagellation and self-crucifixion will eventually mask and dilute such a radiance.  It is the simple, humble, inner strength of love that you can share with those who could appreciate such a torch of love.  You are such a torch, such an indelible flame.
Rumi

There are no expectations you must meet

There are no expectations you must meet.  Hear me.  None.  This is a new time, it is a new day, it is a new chance.  Take it.  Run with it.  Dance with it.  Celebrate it.  Bring your joy to the table of God and share, share.  Share who you are.  Do not hide.  That is what the past does; it provides the cave.  You were not born to live in a cave.  You stay out here with me in the sunlight and we'll dance. 

Each of you, the path is new.  The ground is soft.  This thing called life, it is all yours.  You created it.  Yes!  So, recreate it in your image, in your loving likeness.  Do not take another's conception of life above your own.  Go forward with strength and purpose and dignity.  Go into life and share that with others who hunger as much as you do for heaven on earth.  You will not find it on earth, but you will find it within. 

Shams of Tabriz

I ask all of my brothers and sisters, do not worship me

I ask all of my brothers and sisters, do not worship me.  I ask of you, in this humble place, do not worship your false self.  You have lived your crucifixions too often.  Walk away.  There is no father or mother, no parent to hold you to a home of pain.  There is simply the light of truth, a light you have seen, a light for which you long.  Walk with me.  Walk before me.  I am so very tired of being put first.

Jesus

This is the new paradigm: the simpler the better

This is the new paradigm: the simpler the better.  Simple exists, it thrives, it promotes itself.  Simple life, simple love, simple joy and happiness.  Oh you could serve that at a feast! 

Can you exercise your right to leave your life of pain and sorrow, of suffering and loneliness far behind?  I know you can.  You are not a personality, you are not a habit.  You are not the sum of weaknesses your small mind would hoist upon you.  

But, beloveds, most fear giving up something they hold so dear and sacred, and if it has dollar signs upon it then you know it comes not from my heart but from the heart of darkness.  If you worship it and it gives you not life back, who are you worshipping?  Isn't giving your power a form of worship? If not to yourself, then to whom do you give your empowerment? 

Divine Mother

I used to love to eat

I used to love to eat.  You speak of spices, I know spices; all types, all sorts, all shapes.  But there is one spice few partake of, and that is the spice of life.  Where does such a spice originate?  In fields aplenty?  On bushes?  In trees?  Yes and no.  Such a spice comes from one and place and one place only, and that is the open heart, the land that so few enter.
Shams of Tabriz

We would sit with you, and together watch the dawn of the new day

We would sit with you, and together watch the dawn of the new day.  Before you speak, before even you listen, before you think, feel your place in the light world that is God.  You bring yourselves to great heights to gain perspective and wash clean the aura that is stained by life on Earth.  You begin to understand and utilize your infinite power of love.  Look into the distance of your life; you are creating it. 

It is your hearts that speak to God, and you provide the simplicity; it is called welcome.  Even your frailty can be welcomed and its limitations overcome by adhering to the light that is infinite love, that is within.  That must be first, foremost, without any doubt or question or fear.  It is beyond a fortress.  It is a garden so fragrant, so abundant, so rich and deep in the hues of love, cultivated by your own willingness that you will never want for leaving.

Your book of life is all the richer because of your bravery and commitment and unswerving intention to return to God.
Rumi

Hear me

Hear me.  If you are to overcome then you must be prepared.  Trust God.
What you do with the mind is your business.  What you do with God’s mind is love’s business.
Babaji

The only darkness you perceive is your own

The only darkness you perceive is your own.  If you wish to know the way, follow me.  If you want heaven I am that way. 

What is the worth of peace and kindness, of compassion and generosity to your life?  When you need not think ever again of such a question, it will be our shoulders that touch side by side.
Deeply with love,
Jesus

How can one remember what one has not forgotten?

How can one remember what one has not forgotten?  Joy.  It is not something outside of your mind.  It is our creation.  We must, as a practice living and thriving, make this journey daily.  We must flow back to God; or if you have discovered, in to God.  There is no amount of fear or pain or suffering or despondency that can keep us from our home. 

You are so loved.  Can you feel that?  You can have this where you are if you just remember it.  In the times that try the soul, come here.  I will remind you and God will enfold you, and you shall not want for any good thing.  You shall be loved into health, into peace, into the truth of wholeness again and again.  You are the brave of the brave, and you make the journey that leads back to you.  So precious you are. 

Divine Mother

If you ever have the chance to become all that you dream

If you ever have the chance to become all that you dream, to embrace your wishes, to kiss the hand that feeds you love, beloveds, now is the time.  This is no great mystery, this is no enchantment; this is your choice, this is your road.

Look behind you, they are your footprints that etch the ground.  Do you see what’s before you?  Life; simple, loving, exciting, passionate.  This is why you must experience fully the body electric.  That light must race through you and you must offer it your darkest fears and God will do the rest. 

This is no anthropomorphic shtick or religious belief of God.  This is you, not the god in the sky, but the God that makes your heart beat.  Let the wholeness come upon you.  You need not wait to feel whole again.  Feel whole now. 
Rumi

I am who you believe me to be

I am who you believe me to be.  I am in thee.  If you know me, if you believe in me, then you know and believe in thyself.

You walk in God.  Think on that.
Jesus

If you were to think of your life as cloud, what could stand in your way?

If you were to think of your life as cloud, what could stand in your way?  What and where are your mountains?  Where are your hills?  What would block the flow?

Earth stuff feels like the weight of the world, but to the soul, it weighs less than a breath of wind.  The ego would heap such drama in great piles along the paths of right livelihood, love and compassion; you need not climb them.  You need not dig through them.  You must know and recognize your power, your abilities, your talents and your light.  In your power you can reach so high, and you’d be so far above, a part of the world, and not.
Rumi

The act of being is the act of joy

The act of being is the act of joy.  Is it so much to understand that our loving creator is completely joy in all aspects, at all times, in all moods?  So, when comes the awakening?  When you are still.  When you are focused not on what you do not love or apparently do not have.  When you are simply enjoying who you are and doing the things that bring you that simple joy.
Buddha

The art of surrender is forever overlooked

The art of surrender is forever overlooked.  It takes a soul gifted with far-sightedness to understand the strength and purpose of surrender.  There is no loss in letting go, much will be new.  How you qualify such newness is up to you, but unless the space is made there is no room and it, once again, becomes cluttered, claustrophobic, and you become prone to bumping into your shame, denial and weaknesses. 

Release those things!  If they are so dear, take a picture, visit a taxidermist, bronze them, but do not let them live in your present day as they so affect your world that you will never climb up and out of the chasm.  There is greatness on the other side of that mountain.  It is gold and white, it shimmers like light atop a wave; it is called God and it is your reward for exercising the strength, mindfulness, willfulness and commitment that it takes to release the past.
Rumi

To be of service, be love yourselves

To be of service, be love yourselves.  To be a true friend, go with God into the darkness, always with God.  To be a true friend, accept God in the darkness.  To be a better friend, trust God in the darkness.  To be the beloved, become God in the darkness.  To become I AM, ascend as God from the darkness.

Babaji

What place at your table do you sit truth?

What place at your table do you sit truth?  What power do you give illusion?  Oh this marvelous puzzle!  Call it the folly of humanity or the insecurity of soul; they both spell the same word: fear.  Yea, though I walk through the valley of fear… or something like that.  Life is not all a valley, and you are more atop a peak than you might realize. 

You have come to understand the value of choice.  Choose to be shocked, choose to be elated, choose to be separate; choose as you will but include God in that choice and let it blossom into a marvelous garden.  One moment at a time, every moment as rich or richer than the next.  This is living.  Do not weep for the dying.  Be strong.  Oh yes, and I am not through with you yet.
Shams

I follow the gentle flow

I follow the gentle flow.  I am the flow and the flow follows me.  I sit beneath the branched nature and the shadows of the past wander aimlessly over and above me; I pay them no mind nor heed.  My ample humanness reveres the earth, yet I am a universe unto myself, in the image and likeness of the love eternal and everlasting. 

I found my freedom and my nature in freedom.  Where have you found yours, my children?  My heart reaches to each of you, not to find a home but to find a sister or brother, a true friend, a true God that knows him and herself, that we might converse without the need to own or beguile or make a point.  And I listen for your silent words, and pray you do not anticipate mine. 

So many of us here have risen from the great depths to the heights that are no heights at all.  What separated us was all that separates you, the grand illusion.  And what attaches us to such an illusion?  Nothing but fear. 
Buddha

It is the want of humanity to explore outer space

It is the want of humanity to explore outer space, but there is the infiniteness of marvelous worlds right within each of us.  Man and woman are constantly searching externally, perhaps because it does not hurt so much when compared to the inner journeys that bring us to landscapes of shame and guilt.  If we were to lay the life down this very moment, step back from it and take a good neutral and unbiased look, what pollution we would behold!

From the time we are born, we become infected with the world.  Ideas, thoughts, belief systems that are not our own and yet we believe they are, and so we live a life that way.  We might see, looking at the cadaver of our past, great ranges, mountains and hills of regret and almosts, and great valleys, gorges and chasms of if-onlys.

Perhaps it is not such a bad idea to take a good, honest look.  We do not wear garments that are torn and thread-bare unless we must.  Why do we every day awaken to wearing the same old tired life?  Dare I say that it is an act of convenience, of settling and most-likely surrendering to the world.

You need not go into space, cold and barren, when you might stand next to the warmth of your inner flame.  Be creative.  Journey within.  Love what you do on Earth, love it deeply because it is the food upon the golden tray that you serve to God, and God will taste.  You need not be the way you were if it no longer serves you.  Practice love, loving yourself first, forgiving yourself, and let go of the sheath that weighs you down and keeps you wondering in the mists of Earth.

I leave you with love,

Rumi

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity.  It took Shams to change my perception of this great gift.

In such a place as Earth, that is the status quo, it is the pain and toil and suffering, the unhappiness and the broken dreams upon which most focus, blame and complain.  This begets a life onto itself; as you know, the law of manifestation follows thought.

As you come upon the light of a new day, the opportunity for a new life, the joy of accomplishment, as you come upon all of these and more, why must you dredge and dig up the past?  Why must you judge your vibrant present moment by what has died and by the lessons you learned or did not?

The old way, the way of fear, pain and suffering can lie at rest if you so choose.  Just let it happen.  Let yourselves glide into the love that awaits you in many manners, shapes and forms.  This is not difficult to do.  Let yourselves have. 

Rumi

I cannot conceive of failure

I cannot conceive of failure.  Can you?

Babaji

I will not speak of what stands before you

I will not speak of what stands before you; that is for you to live.  I will not raise you up; that is for you to accomplish.  I will not pity you, judge you, nor rain sorrow down upon you; that is for you to outgrow.

Have you found your true course?  It is no road.  There are no markings.  It is the lightest of air, and it is something that you must discern and discover for yourselves.

But allow me this, you are beginning to float.

Your Christ.

Were I to say to you, I place myself in your hands, I know not what to do

Were I to say to you, I place myself in your hands, I know not what to do.  I hurt, I am lonely, destitute, despondent.  I've lost my way.  Were I to place myself in your hands, how would you receive me?  Then receive yourselves the same way.  Let no appearance less than love convince you otherwise. 

Buddha

We live in a desert

We live in a desert.  It is what we do with our heart that transforms that desert into a garden.  It is what we do with our words, with our actions that brings life to that garden.  Your life is your garden.  The way you think will kill it or prosper it. 

Hear me, there is nothing greater in any world than you, whether you have forgotten this truth, misplaced it or stuck it in the back of your trousers.  Nothing.  Your love and capacity to love and forgive is greater than every celestial body in the history of universes.  Big words.  But you are big souls. 

I brought these truths to Rumi.  He thought me crazy at first.  I think I loved him even more because of it.  But he began to see that God is not flat living in a book.  God is vibrant, God is alive and so are you. 

Life will try to get you down from time to time.  That is why you must become your God because then you are life, life itself.  Live, my friends, live like you've never lived before.  Go through every door unopened, bring your light.  Spread your truth, your life, feed the hungry, feast yourself.  Love, prosper.  Be the one, the only one who can.  I bring you the message of perseverance.  You can do it, you can do it all.  You are so loved. 

Shams of Tabriz

Here is the opportunity

Here is the opportunity.  It is offered to every soul; it is on the table with the feast.  But so many simply gorge themselves, they see not subtleties; they feel not the radiance of light from every candle of truth upon that table that the Master has placed for each of us.  Sit with me for a moment, beloveds.  Do not look to sustenance, do not look to ego satisfaction, do not look to feeding fear.  Look to who you are. 

 

Of course, that is all up to you, but when God knocks at the door, who will not open?  Where will you hide?  Where will you go?  To another life?  It follows, you know.  You never forget.  You shall not keep repeating this process-- hear me, beloveds.  That is why now you must make your stand. 

You must weigh your truth against your illusion.  You must weigh your knowing against your needs.  You must become.  When the going is so difficult and tough, when you cannot think another thought nor walk another step, when you cannot pray another word, call me.  I have been there.  We all have. 

This is not easy.  This thing called being human has been made extremely difficult.  I know you all can do it.  I know that your life, your light, your strength goes beyond whatever you imagine yourself to be.  These are the moments where greatness is defined by what you think and how you back it up by achieving an ultimate love, which is putting the heart of your heart behind your truth and going forward and caring not what the world thinks or feels or judges about you.  It will not be easy, but the power of your soul, once you touch that starlight, overcomes everything. 

Babaji

What if everything in your life is put there because you will it so?

What if everything in your life is put there because you will it so?  Not a thing is out of place, there is no one and no thing to blame for any of your pictures.

The big picture.  Because you have journeyed within, the big picture more and more presents itself.  Are you going to be overwhelmed by such a blessing?  Underwhelmed perhaps?  Blasé?  Frightened?  

Life gets bigger as we go deeper.  Do not fear your depths. Journeying from the echoes in the fog to the clean and poignant sunlight hurts the eyes, but they grow accustomed, acclimated to the clarity that it now beholds.  
Rumi

Do you think your suffering is not registered some place?

Do you think your suffering is not registered some place?  It is not true.  There is not another like you in the mind of God in all and every level of consciousness, and I tell you true, you are so loved!  You are not separate, you are not far away, you are not incomplete.  You are the beloved of the loved.  Every single breath, every thought, every word, every feeling is felt in the heart of God. 

Why are we here?  Why do we speak?  Because all of this communication leads to bolstering what is true about you.  You can overcome anything.  There will always be tides that are against you.  It is the strong swimmer that knows when to paddle and when to float.  Your dreams, your passions, your excitement, they all mean something.  Not just to you, but can you believe they mean something to God too?  They do. 
Divine Mother

We are sailors, captains all, and we drift pointing our vessels towards the sun

We are sailors, captains all, and we drift pointing our vessels towards the sun, negotiating the moods that are waves, and the depths of the waters that appear dark and uncertain.  It is the rising sun we follow, it is this rising sun that you feel in your breast, you feel it in your gut; it is radiating throughout your life.

 

It is a texture.  We are the finger, the hand, the needle, the wool, the plan, the choice, the effort and energy.  We are weavers, and when there comes a break, a tear in life, we must return and set it right.  It gets done only if we do it.

 

Your patience has given the lord of time the opportunity to bring the fragments of your dreams together that they might be woven into the tapestry that is reality.  Do not tear such committed works through worry and fear.  You have worked much too hard to suffer the tantrums of an ego that knows much better its place in your existence.

Rumi

On the mountain, where lies your home?

On the mountain, where lies your home?  The summit?  The base?  Somewhere in between, perhaps?  I tell you, with God as my heart, do not cease from climbing.  Continue.

You will find strengths you forgot were yours.  If you suffer along the way, you will learn from such pain.  For a moment, if you could see through my eyes, you would be at it night and day, because the reward is a love and a joy you can only dream about at this time and place in your lives.

I’m waiting for you in that place with arms open wide.
Jesus

There are lists any soul possesses believing them to be true

There are lists any soul possesses believing them to be true:  I need more money, I need the perfect job, I need more time.  I need this and I need that.  Were that soul to take those moments spent needing and thinking, take each of those moments and journey to God within, there would no turmoil remain.  Perhaps this is a way you might try.  Do not take the time in your life to affirm exactly what you do not want.  Rather, venture within and speak with God. 

Listen to your thoughts.  Do not let them run rampant like some great waves crashing against your pristine shore.  Do not play the fool to the foil of your mind.  Do not injure your opportunity to ascend by falling into the habit of life.  This is not life.  This is simply an opportunity to adventure.  Real life is love.  Let no appearance less than love convince you otherwise. 

Divine Mother

If it is prosperity and abundance you wish

If it is prosperity and abundance you wish, then do something creative and begin with your talent.  Look at all of your talent.  Look at who you are when you are doing what you love.  Maybe you become someone else when you are not doing what you love.  That is the way most of the world lives; do not live that way. 

Be brave, but more than that, be outrageous, be creative.  Do not concern yourself about others' judgments and criticisms.  The buffoonery of humanity is legendary in the universe.  This is a world where you have as much right to create what you love as everyone does creating what they do not.

Prosperity and abundance flow from the light of God.  The light of God shows through your passions, your creativity, your talents, your abilities.  It sheds light on what will manifest, it is on your world the joy of accomplishment, recompense for a job well done.  If at first the flow of light does not seem enough, do not give up.  Expand. It is worth putting your heart into everything you do, especially the things you love.  This will begin the inertia of prosperity and abundance, of wealth.
Jesus

I bless you with the water of your own love

I bless you with the water of your own love, as I touch your forehead and rest my palm on your shoulder.  I give you these words to speak:

I know not fear.  I am simply the wayfarer and I bring love, strong and simple.  I cannot be defeated.  I am no fool of Earth.  I anoint my being daily in the light essence of who I am.  I drink deeply and I pass the cup for all who thirst.  I have taken the first step towards the rest of my loving life.

Be so blessed,
Quan Yin

We can walk many roads

We can walk many roads attempting to create and procure what we think we want.  But, and this is no cliché, God has an infinite plan for you, for everyone and everything.  I believe it is the joy that God receives from our embracing such a plan that bestows many blessings. 

It is perhaps difficult to reconcile that blessings are not always easy nor, shall I say, positive.  They may not appear so as one is receiving them.  But the Infinite Wisdom gives us, acting through us, what we need to attain, our ultimate freedom and at-one-ness with God.
Rumi

There are those that go into the world

There are those that go into the world and wave banners of accomplishment great and small.  And there are those that journey inward, to the great quiet and humble, and bring to the world something so fine, so infinitely lovely and simple that few, very few ever recognize it.

You see, beloveds, we create with the energy of God, and if the focal point is love, then that must surround us, it must.  I tell you nothing you do not know already.  Just remember to love, take no sides and live in love.  There is no other way.  We all come to such a place, to such a simple realization and it all begins in the heart.

Be good to yourselves,

Shams